The Beauty of the Marshes
The vast Ljubljana Marshes, stretching for miles south and west of Ljubljana (covering 163 square kilometers, almost 1% of the territory of Slovenia!), are beautiful (and flat and open and near, so we often fly our kites there). But they are beautiful in their own, stubborn, unyielding way - they can be inhospitable, even threatening. Many scary stories are set in the Marshes, of water swallowing everything, of dragons living there, of people and even whole villages getting l
Iški Morost Nature Reserve Revisited
Iški morost - Iška Moor - is a true gem in the larger setting of Ljubljana Marshes landscape park. Strictly protected and intricately managed by DOPPS - Birdlife Slovenia it is a remnant of once vast marshy grasslands, shrubs and flood forests that used to cover the Ljubljana Marshes, an immensely important habitat of many protected species of flora and fauna, the largest connected area of the highly endangered grassland habitat type – the humid Molinietum grasslands -, and a
